Paula Llanos

EMBL

Paula Llanos is a Bioimage Analyst and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (ARISE2 programme) at EMBL Heidelberg, where she is developing an open-source atlas of expansion microscopy images of eukaryotes across the tree of life. She trained as a bioengineer and earned her PhD in Biomedical Science in Chile.

Before joining EMBL, Paula was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Imaging Platform of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she worked on image-based profiling with Cell Painting and on 3D image analysis, building pipelines to extract quantitative features from large-scale microscopy datasets.

At EMBL, she develops image analysis workflows and data infrastructure that turn 3D images into quantitative descriptions of cellular structures, helping the community study cell architecture, function and evolution.
Paula is committed to making image analysis more accessible, reproducible and open to the wider research community.